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  Fruit @ iCookClub.com
In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant.
The term false fruit (pseudocarp, accessory fruit) is sometimes applied to a fruit like the fig (a multiple-accessory fruit; see below) or to a plant structure that resembles a fruit but is not derived from a flower or flowers.
Rarely are culinary "fruit" not fruit in the botanical sense.
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 fruit. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Indehiscent fruits include the single-seeded achene of the buttercup and the composite flowers; the caryopsis (grain); the nut (e.g., acorn and hazelnut); and the fruits of the carrot and parsnip (not to be confused with their edible fleshy roots).
Accessory fruits contain tissue derived from plant parts other than the ovary; the strawberry is actually a number of tiny achenes (miscalled seeds) outside a central pulpy pith that is the enlarged receptacle or base of the flower.
The “wings” of the maple, elm, and ailanthus fruits and the “parachutes” of the dandelion and the thistle are blown by the wind; burdock, cocklebur, and carrot fruits have barbs or hooks that cling to fur and clothing; and the buoyant coconut may float thousands of miles from its parent tree.
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 Fruit - Food & Drink - Recipes24 Net - recipes, cooking, cookbooks and more
Rarely, culinary "fruits" are not fruits in the botanical sense, such as rhubarb in which only the astringent stalk, or petiole, is edible.
Fruits are so varied in form and development, that it is difficult to devise a classification scheme that includes all known fruits.
Fruits are plant structures whose modifications appear largely to relate to dissemination (called dispersal) of the seeds they contain.
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 ooBdoo
In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant.
With most fruits pollination is a vital part of fruit culture, and the lack of knowledge of pollinators and pollenizers can contribute to poor crops or poor quality crops.
Coir is a fiber from the fruit of coconut that is used for doormats, brushes, mattresses, floortiles, sacking, insulation and as a growing medium for container plants.
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 AllRefer.com - fruit : Types of Fruits (Botany, General) - Encyclopedia
Among the dehiscent fruits are the legume (e.g., the pod of the pea and bean), which splits at both edges, and the follicle, which splits on only one side (e.g., milkweed and larkspur); others include the dry fruits of the poppy, snapdragon, lily, and mustard.
Indehiscent fruits include the single-seeded achene of the buttercup and the composite flowers; the caryopsis (grain); the nut (e.g., acorn and hazelnut); and the fruits of the carrot and parsnip (not to be confused with their edible fleshy roots).
Accessory fruits contain tissue derived from plant parts other than the ovary; the strawberry is actually a number of tiny achenes (miscalled seeds) outside a central pulpy pith that is the enlarged receptacle or base of the flower.
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 Classification of fruit types
A fruit developed solely from the ovary and its contents is known as a true fruit.
A fruit developed from the ovary and its contents plus additional parts of the flower such as the receptacle, petals, and sepals is known as an accessory fruit (e.g.
Multiple Fruit - A fruit formed by the development of a number of pistils often with accessory parts, the pistils being from a number of flowers.
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 Fruit Summary
Fruits formed with large areas of nonpistillate parts in the flower are known as accessory fruits, a term that may be used in combination with these other terms.
Grains, or caryopses, are small, one-seeded fruits that have fruit walls that are fused to the seed and are therefore inseparable, as in corn.
Fruits may be dry in texture, such as those of the sunflower Helianthus annua, and the key-like fruits (or samaras) of the sugar maple (Acer saccharum); or they may be thick and fleshy, like the tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum), the apple (Malus pumila), and the watermelon (Citrullus vulgaris).
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 Fruit - the ripened ovary of an angiosperm flower   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Fruits are classified on the basis of characteristics of the mature ovary tissue – e.g., whether the fruit is fleshy or dry, whether the ovary is fused to other kinds of tissues.
Peanut the seed of a legume fruit, almonds the seed of a drupe.
Generally, fruits and seeds adapted for wind dispersal are relatively lightweight and have an outer coat that either is winglike or has various projections to catch the wind.
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 Tags - Kitchen Accessory - Instablogs Community
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 Accessory Fruits Strawberry Fruit Nutrition Dried Fruit Information
In other words accessory fruits are composed of material not just form the ovary but also participate to form other parts of the flower such as the receptacle.
The strawberry is a accessory fruit as discussed earlier; that is, the fleshy part is derived not from the ovaries (which are the "seeds", actually achene) but from the peg at the bottom of the hypanthia that held the ovaries.
The watermelon fruit are, loosely considered a type of melon (although not in the genus Curcumas) it has a smooth exterior rind and a juicy, sweet, usually carries red interior flesh.
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 Section A. Structure and Specialized Characters: Fruits
A persistent indurated, hook-like funiculus in the fruits of Acanthaceae.
A berry with a leathery nonseptate rind derived from an inferior ovary, as in Cucurbita.
Fruits on a common axis that are usually coalesced and derived from the ovaries of several flowers, as in Morus.
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 Fruit Types
caryopsis (or grain) - a dry, indehiscent, 1-seeded fruit with the seed coat fused to the fruit wall, derived from a superior ovary with 1 locule and one ovule, characteristic of the Poaceae, e.g., corn (Zea), wheat (Triticum), rice (Oryza).
pome A fleshy fruit derived from a flower with a hypanthium and receptacle, with a fleshy endocarp and mesocarp, and a cartilaginous endocarp.
Also an accessory fruit, the fleshy portion of the fruit is formed by the hollow peduncle of the (inside-out) inflorescence.
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 Ficus - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A fig fruit is derived from a specially adapted flower.
The fruit (an accessory fruit called a syconium) has a bulbous shape with a small opening (the ostiole) in the end and a hollow area inside lined with small red edible seeds.
Figs and other dried fruit were measured for their antioxidant content.
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 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Fruits
Occasionally, though rarely, a culinary "fruit"?title=will not be a true fruit in the botanical sense.
In the commercial world, European Union rules define carrot as a fruit for the purposes of measuring the proportion of "fruit"?title=contained in carrot jam.
The sweet flesh of many fruits is "deliberately"?title=appealing to animals, so that the seeds held within are eaten and "unwittingly"?title=carried away and deposited at a distance from the parent.
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 Seed and Fruits
Fruits are formed when an ovary undergoes changes, becoming either dry and hardened or enlarged and fleshy.
A true fruit is one that forms from ovary tissue alone, while an accessory fruit is one that includes modified tissue of other floral parts (usually the receptacle).
E. Pome - an accessory fruit derived from a compound pistil of several carpels, parts of which are stony or membranous and parts of which are fleshy; the whole permanently enclosed in the fleshy floral tube or receptacle.
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 Fruits info, fruit nutrition, Tropical Fruit, Simple Fruits, fruit arrangement, Development Of Fruits
Fruits are varied in form and development that it is difficult to devise into classification scheme that includes all known fruits.
Simple fruits could be either dry or fleshy and result from the ripening of a compound or simple ovary with only one pistil.
Many fruits, including fleshy fruits like mangos and apples, and nuts like walnut, are commercially valuable as human good food, eaten both fresh and made into marmalade, jams and other preserves for future consumption.
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 Biology 2402 Lecture Notes - Fruits
Fruits develop from the ovary of the flower and may, in addition, include various accessory structures that derive from other parts of the flower or influorescence.
In a dehiscent fruit, the seeds are the unit of dispersal.
A fruit formed by the development of a number of gyneocia often with accessory parts, the gynoecia being from a number of separate flowers.
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 Saturday at the Garden
Multiple Fruits- develop from carpels of more than one flower in an inflorescence, usually are accessory fruits as well, e.g.
pepo- tough outer rind consisting of both receptacle tissue and exocarp (accessory fruit), mesocarp and endocarp are fleshy, e.g.
pomes- derived from a compound inferior ovary in which fleshy portion is from enlarged base of perianth and receptacle (accessory fruit), endocarp resembles a tough membrane, e.g.
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 Hair Accessory -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In anatomy, a cranial nerve nucleus, the Accessory nucleus;
An accessory fruit is a fruit in which the fleshy part is derived not from the ovary (or surrounding stem, if the ovary is inferior) but from some adjacent tissue.
The accessory nerve is the eleventh of twelve cranial nerves.
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 fruitid
Whether they produce fleshy vs dry fruits may depend on who they are trying to attract to disperse their fruit, and whether they expect that seed contained within to stick around for a long time or short.
larger fruits and seeds tend to be short lived while dry smaller seeds tend to have a longer live span (years to decades to centuries).
In some way though we need to be cognizant of the fact that the fruit you see today was also selected by humans for the last thousand years and the largeness of the forms is unlike the original forms.
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 From Flower to Fruit
A fruit may appear fleshy early in its maturation, and be bone dry at its completion.
We harvest many dry fruits early in their maturation because they are better to eat or easier to eat.
The entire fruit is an example of an Aggregate Fruit as it is one gynoecium.
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 fruitid
Whether they produce fleshy vs dry fruits may depend on who they are trying to attract to disperse their fruit, and whether they expect that seed contained within to stick around for a long time or short.
larger fruits and seeds tend to be short lived while dry smaller seeds tend to have a longer live span (years to decades to centuries).
In some way though we need to be cognizant of the fact that the fruit you see today was also selected by humans for the last thousand years and the largeness of the forms is unlike the original forms.
wwwfac.mcdaniel.edu /Biology/botf99/flowernew/fruitid.htm   (463 words)

  
 From Flower to Fruit
The carpel wall, the fruit, permits the seeds to be transferred to new locations by dispersers.
The fruit then has several possible evolutionary directions open to it for dispersing the next generation of sporophytes, with wind being just one.
The origin of the fruit is determined by the kind and number of flowers or carpels that were joined to make the fruit.
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 Supermarket Botany 2
Fruit in soapberry family related to lychee and rambutan.
Fruit in the nightshade family eaten as a vegetable.
Cauliflorous fruit that is the source of chocolate bean.
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 Fruit Terminology (Part 4)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The lemon (Citrus lemon) is a hesperidium, a berry with a leathery rind.
The fruit is called a drupe because it is composed of three distinct layers: An outer skin or exocarp, a fleshy middle layer or mesocarp, and a hard, woody layer (endocarp) surrounding the seed.
It is technically a multiple fruit (called a syncarp) composed of a cluster of drupelets superficially resembling a flberry; however, unlike a flberry, each drupelet arises from a separate, minute, unisexual (female) flower.
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 Fruit Catagories   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Drupe- a simple, fleshy fruit with a hard, stony (sclerenchymous) pit surrounding the seed.
Multiple fruit- formed from the ovary of many flowers; the ovaries are so close to each other that they grow and fuse together after fertilization.
Accessory fruit- Ovary and other plant tissue form the fruit.
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 Fruit :: Salads : Gourt
Cool Green Fruit Salad - Made from honeydew melons, green seedless grapes, kiwi fruit, star fruit, apple, lime, and sparkling white grape juice.
Fruit Salad from Hugs's Homeheart - Made with apples, bananas, walnuts, sugar, and topped with whipped cream.
Fruit Salad from Hugs's Homeheart - Layered salad, served cold and made with pineapple, oranges, raspberries, bananas, sugar, and whipped cream.
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 Fruit Growth and Types   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The true fruit is a dry achene, the accessory is red and juicy at maturity.
This fruit consists of a cartilaginous core as the true fruit, and it is surrounded by a fleshy accessory layer.
The true fruit is the tiny dry fruit on the surface of the strawberry.
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 Fruit :: Plants : Gourt
Florida Subtropical and Tropical Fruit Crops - Factsheets from the University of Florida extension on a cultivation of a variety of fruits and nuts in Florida.
Fruits of Warm Climates - List and description of fruits, including lesser-known varieties, that grow in tropical and subtropical climates.
Grow Fruits and Nuts in Temperate Areas - Cultivation summaries for fruit and nut bearing plants from the common to the exotic.
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 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Fruits   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Benedict’s speech is going to produce much fruit, all kinds of fruit, for a while.
Greece man shares the fruits of labor with fr...
In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovaryandmdash;together with seedsandmdash;of a flowering plant.
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